NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXII. 1915. 55 



? ad., ? juv., Massawa, New Britain, October 1905. C. Wahues coll. 

 i fere adult, ? jnv., New Ireland. Collected by a missionarj-. 

 ? (au siibsp. nov.) ? meJ., c^jiiv., New Hanover, 20. ii. 1897. Ca)'ley Web- 

 ster coll. 



For specimens from Manns, Admiralty Islands, see Nov. Zool. x.^i. p. 288. 



25. Accipiter hiogaster rooki Eothsch. k Hart. 



Accipiter hiogaster rooki Rothschild aad Hartert, Xur. Znol, 1914. p. 288 (Rook Island). 



2 cJc? ad, Rook Island, 24. vii., 2. viii. 1913. A. S. Meek coll. Nos. 5812, 

 6893. 



26. Accipiter melanochlamys melanocMamys (Salvad.). 



Urospizias vulanochlamijs Salvador!, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 905 (1870 — Arfak). 



(? ad., Arfak, New Guinea, .June 1S83. E museo H. Guiilemard ; boaght from 

 Brnijn's hunters in Arfak. 



27. Accipiter melanochamys schistacinus Rothsch. & Hart.). 



Astur melanochlamys schistacinu.-! Rothschild and Hartert, Nov. Zool. xx. 1913. p. 482. 



c? ad., Mt. Goliath, 2. ii. 1911. No. 5278, A. S. Meek coll. (type). 



? ad., Owgarra, Angabnnga River, 13. xi. 1904. No. A 1842, A. S. Meek 

 coll. 



Tliis female shows faint traces of bars on some of the feathers in the middle of 

 the abdomen. 



28. Accipiter cirrhocephalus papuanus (Rothsch. & Hart.). 



Astur cirrhocephalus papuannn Rothschild and Hartert, Nov. Zool. xx. 1913. p. 482. 



? ad,, foot-range of Snow Mountains, 3000 ft., 23. x. 1910. No. 4883, A. S. 

 Meek coll. (type). 



c? ad., Avera, Aroa River, 31. iii. 1903. No. A 168, A. kS. Meek coll. 



c? ad., Milne Bay, 14. ii. 1899. No. 2317, A. S. Meek coll. 



S ad., Mt. Victoria, British New Guinea, A. S. Anthony coll. 



? ad., Sattelberg, German New Guinea, 1. xii. Wahnes coll. 



? jnv., N.W. New Guinea. W. Dohcrty coll. 



¥ juv., Sariba Island, British New Guinea, 17. iv. 191U. A. S. Meek coll. 



(? jnv., Aicora River, 21. ix. 1905. No. 9, A. S. Meek coll. 



? juv., Rossel Island, 4. iii. 1898. No. 1537, A. S. Meek coll. 



XXXIII. 

 FLOCEIDAE. 



1. Lonchura monticola (De Vis). 



ytunia monticola De Vis, Ibis. 1897. p. 387 (Mount Scratchley, 12,200 ft,). 



1 ad., Mt. Scratchley. A. S. Anthony coll. 



4 (? ? ad., Mt. Knutsford, 11,000 ft., August 1898. A. S. Anthony coll. •' Eye 

 dark brown ; bill bright blue ; feet black." 



The sexes are alike. Wings, 61-64 mm. This rare Mania is evidently an 

 inhabitant of very high elevations. De Vis described it well enough, but we cannot 

 agree to his statement that it " approaches M. nigriceps^' with which it has nothing 



